To:LYUBOV AXELROD

Published:First published in 1929 inLenin Miscellany XI.

      Sent from London to Berne.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

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Justreceived your letter and am hastening to reply in order to
congratulate you on such a tremendous acquisition as Stavsky. His name was
mentioned in letters we received from Rostov-on-Don, but I deleted it, for
fear of compromising
				him.[1]I am enclosing Iskra No. 29 for you andfor him, to let him see
without delay our account of the events. I also enclose a letter to him
with a request concerning a pamphlet on the Rostov developments.

Further,as regards “Misha the Compositor”. The pseudonym is unknown
to me, but I know and worked with Vas. Andr. Shelgunov whom he
mentions. Since Shelgunov spoke to him about me, please convey to him
greetings from me personally and ask him to write us in detail about every
thing, i.e., about the work and about himself,whohe is and what
his plans are at present, how long he will be abroad, and so on. You will
have to devote some attention to these people: it is very important to win
them over completely. If you haven’t the time to spare, send them to our
people in Zurich or Geneva. We may soon be able to send a youngand very energetic and capable comrade from here (pseudonym: “Pero”) to
help you.

Bythe way, “Misha” is mistaken about Odessa: we have letters from
the “scene of action” there. There are the S.R.L. (Southern Revolutionary
League of Social-Democrats) and the Committee. The latter supportsBorbaand opposesIskra. The former is closer toIskra, but not yetaltogether“ours”.The Odessa Committee has put out No. 3 ofRabocheye Slovo(a printed paper). The S.R.L. issues leaflets. To which “group” did
“Misha” belong? The S.R.L., the Odessa Committee, or some other?

Mywife will attend to the Petersburg and Moscow messages, that is, she
will write to the proper people.

Bestregards,Yours,Lenin

[1]SeeLenin’s “New Events and Old Questions” (present edition, Vol. 6,
pp. 278–83).—Ed.